Does anyone have any experience with netatalk? I'm trying to set up a home
network using a linux box as a server with two other macs running os9. As a
newbie much of the setup with netatalk docs seems over my head :( Maybe
someone could walk me through? Or give me some tips on set up?
Sure - I'm using it daily. (granted on RedHat machines) What do you need to know? Where are you stuck?
Unless you want to do something fancy I'd say you can basically ignore 98% of the docs. They aren't required. The default settings are pretty good.
Assuming you have netatalk installed and running, and have checked the firewall isn't interferring,
create a file called .AppleVolumes in your home directory on the linux machine. It should be plain text and contain only a tilde mark ~ This will share your entire home directory.
If it's just a specific folder you could instead put in a single line like this /home/username/music music This makes the music folder in username's home folder shared as Appletalk volume 'music'
Then just fire up the chooser, pick appleshare and your server should show up on the right hand side. Just give it your linux user name and password and away you go.
It's amusing, but our netatalk servers are more reliable talking to OSX than the genuine Apple OS9 machines. Dunno why, but OSX<=>OS9 is flakey, whereas 9<=>9 or 10<=>10 is fine. Netatalk is good with both. OS 7 needs some massaging to use netatalk servers.
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